[Darksheare]

Afternoon.
*alert!* Combined response post! *alert!*

Seems to me somewhere in the U.S.S. Constitutions history is buried a reference to it's commander giving a strange order to reverse.
And he backed out of an attempt by two Brit vessels to raking fire her on both sides.
I don't rightly remember exactly where I read it, but I do remember reading that touch and go manuever actually worked.

[SAMWolf]

Hey! I've seen that done in a bunch of movies. The bad guys are on both sides of the good guys car, just as they're about to blast him the good guy slams on the brakes and the bad guys shoot each other!

Maybe they got the idea from the Old IronSides.